(1)Whoever is a party to a criminal conspiracy to commit an offence punishable with death or imprisonment for a term of 2 years or upwards shall, where no express provision is made in this Code for the punishment of such a conspiracy, be punished in the same manner as if he had abetted such offence.
Section history
Section 120B — Punishment of criminal conspiracy
Consolidated view is experimental and may be broken for certain provisions.
Amendments
Section 120B — Original text to 1 February 2008superseded
(2)Whoever is a party to a criminal conspiracy other than a criminal conspiracy to commit an offence punishable as aforesaid shall be punished with imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months, or with fine, or with both.
Section 120B — 1 February 2008 to 1 January 2020rewritten by Penal Code (Amendment) Act 2007
Whoever is a party to a criminal conspiracy to commit an offence shall, where no express provision is made in this Code for the punishment of such a conspiracy, be punished in the same manner as if he had abetted such offence.
Section 120B — From 1 January 2020 (current)rewritten by Criminal Law Reform Act 2019
Whoever is a party to a criminal conspiracy shall, where no express provision is made in this Code for the punishment of such a conspiracy, be punished in the same manner as if he had abetted the offence that is the subject of the conspiracy.